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  1. Because you don't understand the meaning of the words "majority" and "most"?

  2. Similar, you say? on Tech Workforce Diversity At Facebook Similar To Google And Yahoo · · Score: 1

    Tech Workforce Diversity At Facebook Similar To Google And Yahoo

    Well then, that can only mean one thing - they must all be equally racist! ...or they're not racist at all, and that's just the way the world is when it comes to finding people with the right skills for the job.

  3. Re:We keep getting closer to a dystopia on MP Says 'Failed' Piracy Warnings Should Escalate To Fines & Jail · · Score: 1

    Can you just declare yourself to be a "common carrier" like that?

    Anyway, in this case, this is happening in the UK, where responsibility defaults to the owner of the access point.

  4. Re:So where can i download the STL files? on Intel Offering 3-D Printed Robot Kits · · Score: 2

    I should pay for [...] the same shit they design once and resell multiple times

    You mean like pretty much every company that makes anything in the entire world?

  5. Re:IF.. on Match.com, Mensa Create Dating Site For Geniuses · · Score: 1

    However, 31 is an equally valid number (the maximum number of pieces you can divide a circle into using just straight lines).

    Doesn't that sequence go 1, 2, 4, 7, 11, 16?

    http://www.murderousmaths.co.u...

    Incidentally I've scored exactly 135 on every single one of several IQ tests I've taken over the years. I like to think I'm pretty smart, but I don't think I'm so smart I should be in a club. In some aspects of life I'm an absolute chump.

  6. What does "effectively infinite" mean? on Building the Infinite Digital Universe of No Man's Sky · · Score: 1

    that's enormous — effectively infinite

    What does "effectively infinite" mean? Is it a) really, really, really big, so big that you'd never be able to explore more than a minuscule fraction of it in a lifetime (but not infinite) or is it b) infinite?

  7. Re:This too shall pass on Mysterious X-ray Signal Hints At Dark Matter · · Score: 3, Insightful

    so therefore the speed of light is changing with the expansion of the Universe.

    No, it isn't.

  8. Re:Prediction: de-anonymization considered "hackin on Improperly Anonymized Logs Reveal Details of NYC Cab Trips · · Score: 1

    A new car built by my company [...] car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall?

    No, you just need to stop making such shitty cars.

  9. Awesome on Great White Sharks Making Comeback Off Atlantic Coast · · Score: 1

    Great White Sharks Making Comeback Off Atlantic Coast

    Been a fan of GWS since the beginning. Where can I get tickets? Bit of a weird choice of venue, though.

  10. Re:I'm sorry... on Prisoners Freed After Cops Struggle With New Records Software · · Score: 2

    Oh, please.

  11. Re:Not the Big Bang on Big Bang Breakthrough Team Back-Pedals On Major Result · · Score: 1

    It already has a name.

  12. Re:Anonymous scientist on Scientists Measure Magnetic Interaction Between Two Bound Electrons · · Score: 1

    This is not stuff everyone knows.

    If Slashdot only told me things I already knew, I wouldn't come here. Duh.

    There was enough there to understand the gist of it

    Perfect. That's exactly what I want from a Slashdot summary. Then, if I want to read further, I can.

  13. Re:Not the Big Bang on Big Bang Breakthrough Team Back-Pedals On Major Result · · Score: 1

    As I understand it, chemical reactions, electron orbital sizes, etc, will all be the same even after space has expanded many times. While space is still expanding slowly, it's not having much effect on anything - the other forces (not that expansion is really a force, though it has similar effects) acting between molecules in close proximity will be overwhelming.

    Again AIUI, an electron could continue happily in its orbit while space expands 10, 100 or 1000 times - as long as the expansion remains relatively slow. It's not the simple fact that space is expanding that might cause a big rip, but the fact that the expansion is accelerating, and will - one day - be so fast that it will outpace light, at which point no forces will be able to act over even a Planck distance (because by the time they've propogated, that Planck distance will have expanded too much).

  14. Re:This science does sound quasi-religious. on Big Bang Breakthrough Team Back-Pedals On Major Result · · Score: 1

    I'm sure you meant "for several billion years."

  15. Re: Shedding some light on Construction of World's Largest Telescope Finally Underway in Chile · · Score: 1

    Because it wasn't wrong.

  16. In Soviet Russia on Russia Wants To Replace US Computer Chips With Local Processors · · Score: -1, Troll

    In Soviet Russia, lame, done-to-death jokes repeat you.

  17. Re:Extremely Large Telescope on Construction of World's Largest Telescope Finally Underway in Chile · · Score: 1

    Then assemble the Huge Ass Mirrors.

    It's bad enough seeing a huge ass directly. I don't want to have to cope with reflections of it as well.

  18. Re:Shedding some light on Construction of World's Largest Telescope Finally Underway in Chile · · Score: 1

    Of course following Muphry's law I've probably made some mistake in my post.

    If only you'd said "definitely" - then by not making a mistake you would have made a mistake.

  19. Re:The government *IS* a schizoid ! on Smartphones To Monitor Schizophrenics · · Score: 1

    Hah! I'm nicking that.

  20. Re:Doesn't mean it's not quantum on Test: Quantum Or Not, Controversial Computer No Faster Than Normal · · Score: 1

    Or it could mean that quantum computing in general isn't faster than normal computing.

    The D-Wave isn't "quantum computing in general."

  21. Re:Why? on It's Not a Car, It's a Self-Balancing Electric Motorcycle (Video) · · Score: 1

    Three wheels, as stable - or unstable, when you're stopped - as any other motorcycle.

    And the gyro bike could well be - arguably - more stable again. It's certainly much more stable than any other two-wheeler when stationary.

  22. Re:Can someone translate the summary into English? on TrueCrypt Author Claims That Forking Is Impossible · · Score: 1

    The use of the present tense is the oddity there.

  23. Re:Why? on It's Not a Car, It's a Self-Balancing Electric Motorcycle (Video) · · Score: 2

    The gyos add complexity, and dropping a third wheel doesn't save that much space.

    The gyro might add more stability than a third wheel.

  24. Re:Why does this make me think of... on It's Not a Car, It's a Self-Balancing Electric Motorcycle (Video) · · Score: 0

    Ain't nobody got time for that!

  25. Re:Can someone translate the summary into English? on TrueCrypt Author Claims That Forking Is Impossible · · Score: 1

    "the author answers" "might be no good idea." "he allows to use"

    Not quite gibberish, but not exactly good journalistic English, either.